June 23, 2012 Its dominant interest groups have done to Obama what they did to Carter. By JAY COSTMr. Cost is a staff writer for the Weekly Standard and the author of “Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic” (Broadside Books, 2012). EXCERPT […]
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June 20, 2012 Food Stamp Fiasco The Senate refuses to cut $20 billion out of $770 billion. The next time someone moans about Washington “austerity,” tell them about the Senate’s food stamp votes on Tuesday. Democrats and a few Republicans united to block even modest reform in a welfare program that has exploded in the
June 14, 2012 Here’s pro-growth advice no one in Europe will take: Stop listening to the IMF bleeders and the Obama spenders. By DANIEL HENNINGER The Europe of Charlemagne, Marco Polo and Churchill, after millennia of undoubted achievement, has finally spent itself to the verge of collapse and irrelevance. Witnessing this historic catastrophe, Barack Obama,
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June 7, 2012 What’s Changed After Wisconsin The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards. By PEGGY NOONAN What happened in Wisconsin signals a shift in political mood and assumption. Public employee unions were beaten back and defeated in a state with a long progressive tradition. The unions and their allies put everything
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June 5, 2012 Inside ObamaCare’s Grant-Making George Washington University is getting $1.9 million for a project to reduce health costs by $1.7 million. By STEVEN E. GREER Dr. Greer, a surgeon, is CEO of the Healthcare Channel (thehcc.tv) and a financial analyst. Early this year, I was briefly involved with one of the Affordable Care
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June 5, 2012 Fannie Med Health and Human Services gets into the venture capital game. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Then there’s Medicare’s so-called “innovation center” and its $10 billion kitty to make grants to companies and providers to test new methods for improving care. Democrats included language that bars administrative or even judicial review of
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS Published: June 1, 2012 By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist letters@ocregister.com The Eurovision Song Contest doesn’t get a lot of attention in the United States, but on the Continent it’s long been seen as the perfect Euro-metaphor. Years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution and predicated on the
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May 26, 2012 The Reagan Memo Some sage economic advice from 1980 for the next President. Nearby today readers will notice excerpts from a memo written to Ronald Reagan by his economic advisers between his November 1980 election and inauguration. We share the memo because it shines a historical perspective on our own economic dilemmas
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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